In the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest, Mr. Mulliner spins tales of his amazing family, holding, as it were, the assembled company of Pints of Stout and Whiskies and Splash in the palm of his expressive hand. Read along to discover what happened to The Man Who Gave Up Smoking; share a frisson when the butler delivers Something Squishy on a silver salver ("your serpent, Sir," said the voice of Simmons); and experience the dreadful Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court. Throughout, the Mulliner clan remains resourcefully in command in the most outlandish situations. Best known as the creator of Jeeves—the impossibly wise, supremely well-mannered gentleman's gentleman—and Wooster, his unflaggingly affable but bumbling employer, P.G. Wodehouse invokes the very British spirit of a bygone era in gentle satire that, as Evelyn Waugh puts it, "satisfies the most sophisticated taste and the simplest."